Onyx Rap Quotes

People really listen to your lyrics if you rap. So, I had to make sure that they were clear and concise. ~ Mark Salling

Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan. ~ Eddie Trunk

People say, 'Grimm, you've been shot like 50.
So why don't you just rhyme like 50?
Then, you could get the money like 50,
Otherwise, before you see success ... you'll be 50.' ~ MF Grimm

Took two drags off the blunts, and started breaking down the flag:
The blue is for the Crips, the red is for the Bloods,
The whites for the cops, and the stars come from the clubs
Or the slugs that ignite, through the night,
By the dawn early light, why is sons fighting for the stripe? ~ RZA

We tell each other everything. You take the rap for bad things I do, we have this amazing time together and then all day in classes you ignore me like I don't exist. And I have to watch you and Sally together, and you licking her arse and not telling her about me. And when she says something mean to me you just stand there. I don't even answer back like I used to, I take it and you just stand there and let her speak to me the way she does. What about the fact that I am your best friend now? How do you think that feels, Flo? It feels HORRIBLE, that is how it feels. HORRIBLE.'
I leave her standing in the rain. I deliberately go slowly so she can catch me up, but she doesn't. I get all the way home and she never comes after me. ~ Dawn O'Porter

Working hard may help you maintain,
To learn to overcome the heartaches and pain. ~ Inspectah Deck

Soeur Marie Emelie"

Soeur Marie Emelie
is little and very old:
her eyes are onyx,
and her cheeks vermilion,
her apron wide and kind
and cobalt blue.

She comforts
generations and generations
of children,
who are
"new"
at the convent school.
When they are eight,
they are already up to her shoulder,
they grow up and go into the world,
she remains,
forever,
always incredibly old,
but incredibly never older...
She has an affinity with the hens,
When a hen dies,she sits down on a bench and cries,
she is the only grown-up, whose tears
are not frightening tears.
Children can weep without shame,
at her side...
Soeur Marie Emelie...
her apron as wide and kind
as skies on a summer day
and as clean and blue. ~ Caryll Houselander

I've never had a problem with someone saying "yeah you're pretty, but you can't rap." In fact, I've heard things about other artists, opposed to me. To make a long story short, I've never had a problem with that. My skills speak for themselves. ~ Jacki-O

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice. ~ Andrew Motion

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much. ~ Chuck D

You screamin' 'no homo', but that's so homo
Such a no-no, please swallow the .44 ~ Reks

I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want. ~ Langhorne Slim

This game is lame, the music comes second
So you can save that stupidness for all them artists you checkin.
Popularity don't last long, I'm in it for classics,
Cause the other side of the biz is fake and it's plastic. ~ Craig G

I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on. ~ Nas

At a recent education summit, President Obama admitted that he can't rap. When they heard, Americans said, 'Good!' ~ Jimmy Fallon

Thinkin' of a master plan
Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand. ~ Rakim

For a long period of time, the media covered rap music and hip hop the same way they cover a lot of black people, people of color, you know, the bad news happens to be news. They used to have these little stupid colloquialisms that pop up like, "You know what? No news is bad news!" They trick the masses into thinking that any news is great for you. And I just think that's a piece of crap. ~ Chuck D

Life Will Put Many Red Lights In Front Of You, But Sometimes We Must Push On The Gas And Trust God ~ Kendrick Lamar

. I can still see Ricky on that roof... the sunlight shining in his round dark eyes, eyes dark as the onyx stones on my mother's silver bracelet. His shiny black hair was matted and shoulder-length. I wondered who cut his hair. My grandmother cut mine. ~ Jose N Harris

Man gave us laws, and God gave us time,
It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine. ~ ASAP Rocky

I get physical, mystical, very artistical ...
Giving party people something funky to listen to. ~ Big Daddy Kane

Your crew is featherweight, my gunshots will make you levitate ~ Prodigy

Let's test the waters ...
Love makes a splash, and you too thick to skinny-dip. ~ Pusha T

Take a sip from the cup of death ...
And when you're shaking my right hand, I'll stab you with the left. ~ Ol' Dirty Bastard

Everything that shines ain't always gonna be gold ~ Kid Cudi

I stay dipped like the first day of school. ~ Cappadonna

I think rap music has made more money on dance music than dance music has made on dance music. Just a thought. ~ Kaskade

Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it. ~ Spike Lee

So with the freestyles, I just do it for fun. If I hear something that I like, I'm rapping on it. ~ Kid Cudi

I have a weird thing with giraffes, I don't like their neck ~ Eminem

I find rap, dance, and hip-hop vaguely terrifying. I don't have the right clothes to be into them, and it all seems a bit intense. I file these genres along with heavy metal and speed metal under people who would kill, then eat me. ~ Caitlin Moran

You can see the weakness of a man right through his iris. ~ RZA

I find that with some girls, the words 'work' and 'education' have gotten a bad rap. ~ Sandra Bullock

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot. ~ Jackie Collins

At least the rap metal stuff is good, but it's not really my bag. I've been listening to the radio since we've been touring the past month, because we don't get it most of the time. ~ Jon Crosby

I heard you good with them soft lips.. Yeah you know word of mouth ~ Drake

Whatever you goin' through, could always be much worse,
Don't make a mistake, mistakin' your blessings for a curse. ~ Joe Budden

Homicide central, East New York, Where the manic-depressive psycho murderers stalk ~ Jeru The Damaja

During social studies, otherwise known as Dad's cirriculum as the Ways and Means of the Indefatigable White People, my father used to warn me about listening to rap or the blues with Caucasian strangers. And as I got older, I'd be admonished not to play Monopoly, drink more than two beers, or smoke weed with them either. For such activities can breed a false sense of familiarity . And nothing, from a hungry jungle cat to the African ferryboat, is more dangerous than a white person on what they think is familiar ground. ~ Paul Beatty

Time is real, we can't rewind it ...
Out of everybody I met, who told the truth?
Time did. ~ Common

It's a cold world, better pack your own heat. ~ Redman

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out. ~ J. Cole

Breathe in ... inhale vapors from bright stars that shine,
Breathe out ... weed smoke retrace the skyline. ~ Mos Def

Niggas out here buyin' hoes bags n' shoes,
But couldn't buy their kid a new coat for school?
Damn. ~ Troy Ave

I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do their job. Some people have more of a knack for it than others do, but almost all of it falls to, 'My mother's suffocating me.' Whatever. ~ Annie Potts

There is rap music in all my films. In 'La Vie des Morts,' there is rap music too. It's because I'm French, and when it appeared in 1978, it was so new, it set off my musical imagination. ~ Arnaud Desplechin

I've always been noted for being original and doing different thing. So for me to hop on the train that's going on would be - shoot, if I wanted to hop on the train, I might as well have hopped on gangsta rap back when it was popular and tried to do that. ~ Will Ferrell

I don't like people being something that they ain't, and we got a lot of that in rap right now. ~ Freddie Gibbs